{"id":357,"date":"2007-05-18T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-05-18T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T11:07:15","slug":"my_accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"My accent"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a couple of years ago about my bland, generic American accent<\/a>. It seems to defy all attempts at classification; people who listen to me talk and then guess where I grew up virtually never get it right. So I couldn’t pass up an online quiz titled “What American accent do you have?<\/a>” Here is the result I got:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
What American accent do you have?<\/b> <\/p>\n
Your Result: The Northeast<\/b><\/div>\n
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Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Philadelphia<\/td>\n\n
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The Inland North<\/td>\n\n
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The Midland<\/td>\n\n
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The South<\/td>\n\n
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Boston<\/td>\n\n
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The West<\/td>\n\n
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North Central<\/td>\n\n
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What American accent do you have?<\/b><\/a>
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The Northeast<\/em>? That’s just bizarre. I never lived there or even visited that region for more than a few days, and neither have my parents. Notice also that the quiz gives me only a middling grade for being Southern, even though I have lived my entire life in the South. Either this quiz is highly inaccurate, or I am just weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My bland, generic American accent seems to defy all attempts at classification.
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